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SF Mayor Says Normal Pride Celebration May Not Be Possible

After a number of local publications covered the strangely vague stance being taken by SF Pride concerning the late June parade and weekend-long festival, SF Mayor London Breed made a comment Wednesday suggesting that it won't be happening.

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Will Pride Happen In June? New York and San Francisco Have Yet To Officially Cancel

Because shelter-in-place orders are still, technically, only extended until May 3 in San Francisco, SF Pride has yet to make any moves to change or cancel the LGBTQ Pride celebrations here — even though Los Angeles has canceled their Pride, which happens just weeks before ours

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This Is Giving Me Life Today: Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast Members Zoom-Bomb Nine-Year-Old Fan For Her Birthday

Since Zoom-bombing is all the rage, actor John Krasinski decided to use the privacy-invading fad to surprise one nine-year-old girl who had a disappointing birthday last week and missed her chance to see Hamilton in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.

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W. Kamau Bell, Steve Kerr, Others Holding Online Show Tonight to Fundraise for Masks

With the goal of raising $1 million to buy masks and hand sanitizer for underserved communities, “Masks for the People” goes live on Instagram at 6 p.m. tonight.

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Video: Two San Jose Nurses Perform Celine Dion's 'The Prayer' Before Their Shift

Over the weekend, a pair of nurses at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose posted a video to Facebook of them performing "The Prayer" before starting their latest shift amid a pandemic.

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Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Organizers Post Update

A nursing home in Orinda has 27 positive COVID-19 cases, Governor Newsom says he's secured 7,000 hotel rooms for the homeless, and San Diego County is now issuing $1,000 fines to people violating stay-at-home orders.

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Support the SF and Oakland Zoos As They Weather the Pandemic Shutdown

Like many other nonprofits and performance venues in the Bay Area, the San Francisco and Oakland Zoos are dealing with a sharp drop in revenue due to shelter-in-place orders.

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San Francisco To Applaud And Thank Healthcare Workers At 8PM Saturday

Earlier calls for San Francisco to observe this nightly global ritual haven't taken hold — spread the word and make it happen for Saturday, April 4, and maybe every night thereafter.

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Salesforce Tower's LED Crown Honors Healthcare Workers With Clapping Hands

Joining a worldwide, daily call for applause for the healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top of Salesforce Tower was illuminated this week with a video of clapping hands.

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The Stud and Oasis Put Drag Shows Online

SoMa queer nightclubs The Stud and Oasis are both doing shows, both live and recorded, that you can enjoy from home while also supporting these nightlife businesses in a time of crisis.

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This Is Giving Me Life Today: Dolly Parton Reading to Children

As the entire country is on varying degrees of lockdown, the great Dolly Parton has decided to do weekly live readings of bedtime stories for children — so there's a reason to look forward to Thursday.

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Burning Man Ticket Sales Put On Hold As Event Remains In Limbo

Still unsure whether Burning Man will even happen in 2020, given everything, organizers announced Tuesday that the original scheduled dates for registration and ticket-buying are being postponed to an as-yet-undetermined future date.

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Moment of Zen: The Peregrine Falcon Cam Atop the PG&E Building

The livestream is back for nesting season at the peregrine falcon nest atop PG&E's downtown SF headquarters at 77 Beale Street, and four eggs are getting ready to hatch!

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This Is Giving Me Life Today: Fantastic Negrito's New Coronavirus Anthem

Grammy Award-winning Bay Area artist Fantastic Negrito has just put out a music video for this song "Chocolate Samurai," which is dedicated to those of us in isolation, and has the timely refrain, "Have you lost your mind yet?!"

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ACT Offers Video Streams Of Two Productions; Berkeley Rep to Follow

American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.

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Sonoma Residents Sing Along to 'Sweet Caroline' Nightly; Mill Valley Howls

As our shut-in lives settle into routines, the Bay Area has been responding in its own spirited ways — though not yet in quite as inspired ways as Italians and their balcony choral sessions.

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Video: San Francisco Man Sends Pal a Roll of Toilet Paper Via Drone

Tech savvy and drone-loving San Franciscans were bound to resort to this contact-less delivery method, and one friend decided to help another out when there was no TP to be found.

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This Is Giving Me Life Today: David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful

We could all use some reasons to be cheerful this week, right? Singer and all around genius poet of American music David Byrne has a new journalism project that wants to give you some hope.

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What Will Happen With Burning Man? Organizers Still Can't Be Sure

Burning Man's theme camp symposium is going forward on March 28 as a virtual event, and in a statement, organizers say they are watching and waiting and hoping that Black Rock City can be built again come August.

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This Year's Easter Sunday Hunky Jesus Contest To Be Held Online

Assuming we will all still be primarily indoors and isolated come Easter — Donald Trump be damned — the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has announced that the beloved annual tradition of the Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests will be moving online, like most other live events these days.

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Haunting Drone Footage Shows the Ghost Town Of San Francisco on Sunday

One week in to a shelter-in-place order and a growing global pandemic, San Francisco was its beautiful self on Sunday — just nearly devoid of people. Check out this gorgeous but chilling drone footage shot all over town.

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This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms

One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.

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Breed Unveils $2.5 Million Arts Relief Fund, But Industry Faces $48 Million in Losses

Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.

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Pixar's 'Onward' to Stream on Disney+ April 3, Download for Purchase Tonight

The latest Disney-Pixar animated release, Onward, is one of dozens of scheduled Hollywood releases this spring that are getting impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And in this case, Disney's decided to let it go straight to streaming.

Business & Tech

EU Wants Netflix To Stop Streaming In HD to Keep Internet From Breaking

Los Gatos-based Netflix and other streaming platforms are being urged by a European Union commissioner to temporarily stop streaming content in HD due to the unprecedented levels of internet usage occurring as multiple countries go on lockdown.

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